Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 89 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -36 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,189 1,967 2,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.11% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 3.59% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 796 1,122 1,957
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,313 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,875 £112,500 £111,746
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 1,108 £77,500 +10.71% 590
London +7 638 £85,000 - 185
UK excluding London -70 504 £70,000 +7.69% 496
Work from Home -21 501 £75,000 +11.11% 367
North of England -22 206 £70,000 +14.37% 127
North West +2 126 £70,000 +12.00% 66
South East -87 106 £70,000 +3.70% 144
Midlands +8 68 £72,500 +11.54% 77
Yorkshire -37 67 £75,000 +22.54% 43
South West -51 53 £62,500 - 64
Scotland -44 40 £64,500 -4.44% 21
West Midlands +8 39 £70,000 +7.69% 48
East of England -21 29 £77,500 +29.17% 51
East Midlands -10 27 £76,750 +18.08% 27
North East -11 13 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Wales -7 5 £55,200 +0.36% 15
Northern Ireland -8 2 - - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.10%) Apache
2 25 (2.10%) Confluence
3 23 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (0.93%) CMS
5 11 (0.93%) JBoss
6 10 (0.84%) Appian
7 9 (0.76%) nginx
8 8 (0.67%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.59%) IIS
9 7 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.084%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.084%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.084%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (1.77%) Maya
2 12 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.76%) Endur
2 9 (0.76%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.25%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Actimize
7 1 (0.084%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.084%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.084%) Quorum
7 1 (0.084%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.084%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 624 (52.48%) AWS
2 564 (47.43%) Azure
3 193 (16.23%) GCP
4 178 (14.97%) Serverless
5 151 (12.70%) SaaS
6 121 (10.18%) GitHub
7 120 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 66 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (5.13%) PaaS
13 55 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
18 39 (3.28%) IaaS
19 35 (2.94%) Power Platform
20 31 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.84%) HTTP
1 10 (0.84%) Network Security
2 8 (0.67%) AMQP
3 5 (0.42%) Internet
4 4 (0.34%) WAN
5 3 (0.25%) Broadband
5 3 (0.25%) Multicast
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) SNMP
7 1 (0.084%) MQTT
7 1 (0.084%) SSL
7 1 (0.084%) TCAP
7 1 (0.084%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (13.54%) NoSQL
2 157 (13.20%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (12.36%) MongoDB
4 134 (11.27%) SQL Server
5 69 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 55 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.46%) MySQL
8 50 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.35%) Redis
11 27 (2.27%) Big Data
12 26 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.93%) RDBMS
14 20 (1.68%) Power BI
15 17 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (1.18%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.18%) Tableau
17 12 (1.01%) DB2
18 7 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
18 7 (0.59%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 154 (12.95%) Git
2 120 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.71%) JIRA
4 49 (4.12%) JUnit
5 48 (4.04%) GitLab
6 42 (3.53%) Selenium
7 35 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.69%) JMeter
9 31 (2.61%) Mockito
10 25 (2.10%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.51%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.51%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.18%) CircleCI
12 14 (1.18%) Maven
12 14 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.84%) Postman
15 9 (0.76%) git-flow
15 9 (0.76%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 354 (29.77%) Finance
2 339 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 130 (10.93%) Banking
4 128 (10.77%) Law
5 108 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.13%) Retail
8 59 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 46 (3.87%) Games
11 43 (3.62%) Marketing
12 31 (2.61%) French Language
12 31 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.52%) Dutch Language
14 29 (2.44%) Billing
15 27 (2.27%) Back Office
15 27 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 25 (2.10%) Legal
17 20 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 401 (33.73%) Developer
2 261 (21.95%) Senior
3 238 (20.02%) Architect
4 217 (18.25%) Software Engineer
5 195 (16.40%) Lead
6 119 (10.01%) Solutions Architect
7 104 (8.75%) .NET Developer
8 103 (8.66%) Java Developer
9 78 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 78 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 74 (6.22%) Java Engineer
11 66 (5.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 61 (5.13%) Lead Developer
13 51 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
14 50 (4.21%) Software Developer
15 48 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 40 (3.36%) Lead Architect
18 38 (3.20%) Senior Architect
19 36 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (26.41%) .NET
2 266 (22.37%) React
3 246 (20.69%) RESTful
4 208 (17.49%) Spring
5 194 (16.32%) REST
6 188 (15.81%) Kafka
7 181 (15.22%) Spring Boot
8 144 (12.11%) AngularJS
9 131 (11.02%) Node.js
10 126 (10.60%) .NET Core
11 111 (9.34%) HTML
12 77 (6.48%) .NET Framework
13 75 (6.31%) CSS
14 70 (5.89%) ASP.NET
15 69 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
16 62 (5.21%) Hibernate
17 61 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
18 58 (4.88%) Entity Framework
19 56 (4.71%) Vue
20 54 (4.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 329 (27.67%) Cloud Native
2 176 (14.80%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
4 99 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 31 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 29 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (2.35%) Data Structures
11 26 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 25 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
13 24 (2.02%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.93%) Blockchain
14 23 (1.93%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.51%) Mobile App
17 17 (1.43%) Low-Code
18 16 (1.35%) IoT
19 14 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.79%) Linux
2 28 (2.35%) Windows
3 17 (1.43%) Android
4 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) CentOS
7 2 (0.17%) Debian
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.084%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (51.89%) Agile
2 544 (45.75%) CI/CD
3 488 (41.04%) DevOps
4 381 (32.04%) Software Engineering
5 261 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 259 (21.78%) Containerisation
7 252 (21.19%) AI
8 238 (20.02%) Mentoring
9 227 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
10 200 (16.82%) Event-Driven
11 199 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 175 (14.72%) Roadmaps
13 172 (14.47%) TDD
14 160 (13.46%) Computer Science
15 153 (12.87%) Test Automation
16 149 (12.53%) Scrum
17 144 (12.11%) SDLC
18 137 (11.52%) Clean Code
18 137 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
19 125 (10.51%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 407 (34.23%) Java
2 318 (26.75%) C#
3 292 (24.56%) Python
4 283 (23.80%) SQL
5 256 (21.53%) JavaScript
6 192 (16.15%) TypeScript
7 55 (4.63%) Go
8 39 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.93%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.68%) C++
11 20 (1.68%) PHP
12 17 (1.43%) C
12 17 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 16 (1.35%) Rust
14 15 (1.26%) Ruby
15 14 (1.18%) Bash
16 9 (0.76%) Scala
17 8 (0.67%) Bicep
18 6 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 194 (16.32%) Degree
2 115 (9.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 93 (7.82%) Security Cleared
4 69 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 38 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 37 (3.11%) Azure Certification
9 36 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.76%) PMP
13 7 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.59%) CISSP
14 6 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.65%) QA
2 27 (2.27%) GDPR
3 23 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.01%) SLA
6 11 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.84%) IFRS
7 10 (0.84%) NIST
8 9 (0.76%) IFRS 17
8 9 (0.76%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.67%) EMIR
9 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.42%) SEPA
12 4 (0.34%) NCSC
13 3 (0.25%) WCAG
14 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 364 (30.61%) Docker
2 14 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 363 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 160 (13.46%) Terraform
3 47 (3.95%) Grafana
4 40 (3.36%) Ansible
5 30 (2.52%) Kibana
6 22 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.09%) Argo
9 4 (0.34%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.34%) Puppet
10 3 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
12 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.084%) Mesos
12 1 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 191 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.05%) Oracle
3 33 (2.78%) Guidewire
4 27 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.19%) SAP
5 26 (2.19%) Splunk
6 25 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.02%) Google
8 18 (1.51%) OpenAI
9 16 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (1.01%) Duck Creek
12 11 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.84%) IBM
13 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.76%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.76%) Software AG